Chacaritas plus

common occurrences:
(host mom in bedroom; Cesar in living room, bitch of a dog in living room; tvs on in every room. Boca scores.)
Boca announcer on tv: GOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLL (for about 13-20 seconds)
host mom: GOLLLLLLL! (she can't yell as long because she smokes 2 packs a day)
Cesar: clapping furiously and jumping around saying "vamos vamos vamos!!!"
dog: barking and howling
Cesar walks to the bedroom and they clap together, without really saying a word

woman so old that she walks with a cane, but is still wearing high heels.

roommate: how do you say avocado?
me: aguacate
host mom: no no no no no, that is Mexican
me: oh really? I didn't know that. I saw it on a menu here
host mom: no you didn't

okay. anyway, here are some pictures of my most recent adventure. we decided to hop on the Subte and go somewhere we had never been, on a recommendation by my friend in Mendoza. these are mostly all at the cementerio en Chacaritas, where Carlos Gardel and Alfonsi Storni are buried. they have tons of.. those grave houses, I can't think of the word in english, and then at least 11 of these huge underground circular shaped areas for ashes. the whole place was really well kept though and the caretakers were really nice. I didn't find Alfonsina so I'm going to go back another day, because I really liked the feria over there anyway. as my host mom said it's really cheap because that's where the "common people" live. as opposed to Belgrano where they are all more so rich brats. but she didn't say that part.

the picture with the flag is of one of the more famous statues in the city that is in the middle of the 9 de Julio avenue, "the biggest avenue in the world" even though I would argue it's 2 entirely separate streets.